Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb Tetralogy - Black market Bones-for-Boners program?

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Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

As a plural system with DID, I found certain characters in Nona (and to a lesser extent, Harrow) relatable and jarring in equal measure.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2023 15:55

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 23:19

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

ulmont posted:

That would check out, considering the author's note following Harrow.

The "banana-flavored soluble" one? Or did I miss something else?

# ¿ Sep 19, 2023 01:15

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

# ¿ Sep 23, 2023 00:45

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

If the Lyctors are God's fingers, who are God's toes?

# ¿ Sep 29, 2023 06:03

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

I had a dream about Palamedes and Abigail discussing linguistic wordplay in TLT, but the only thing I remember is that "Alecto" was also "al-Ecto", making her literally The Other.

# ¿ Sep 29, 2023 16:40

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

Zorak of Michigan posted:

If someone tries and fails to kill you, I don't think you're morally required to wait patiently for them to get it right.

Which is why all of humanity can and should kill the man who became God and the God who became man in self-defense.

# ¿ Oct 2, 2023 17:40

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

Guys as careful as John don't have accidents.

That brief mask-off moment in Nona has killed any benefit of doubt that I might have given him, and no amount of thanergy is going to resurrect it. I know that type of predator all too well: someone who hides their abuse behind a fumbling persona, while knowing exactly what they are doing and reveling in it.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2023 15:49

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

FuturePastNow posted:

Well yes he's a terrible person, but do you know anyone better for the job

That job should not exist in the first place and anyone willing (or worse, wanting) to take it is utterly unfit for it.

(Unless they're Noodle. Noodle can do it, as a treat.)

# ¿ Oct 16, 2023 16:05

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

mdemone posted:

Who knows what we might do, if given the power of a god?

Plug me in and find out.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2023 13:05

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

sebmojo posted:

John is brilliant because everything about him is so charming but he's like like Hitler x10,000 in pure objective evil terms

I do not find him charming. I find him extremely creepy. And purely evil, of course.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2023 04:56

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

To Jod's claim that he is necessary to keep the sun burning, I say that he can do that job just fine from inside said sun.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2023 23:29

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

I just realized that it's a retelling of the Orpheus/Eurydice myth, except Orpheus doesn't turn around and so a vengeful shade named John murders Euridyce in an attempt to shank Orpheus as he takes the last step out.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2023 15:38

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

lines posted:

Oh it's going to be so exciting when he gets his comeuppance. I wonder what form that will take?

Something to do with the name of the series, I imagine.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2023 20:13

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

Agaragon posted:

Simplest solution would be killing them all and telling everyone else "There was an accident with the process, they blew up, super sorry."

Guys as careful as him don't have accidents.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2023 22:27

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
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Velius posted:

Series ending spoilers:

�Oh, Harrow, that�s it! My big mistake was bringing you all together, having you learn the eightfold word together. Next time I�ll spread you out so it�s more of a slow burn.�

Ah, the WH40K Primarch method.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2023 23:12

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

John probably wrote that fanfic and that post.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2023 07:26

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
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lines posted:

You know, you can accuse John of many things, but being a capitalist is not one of them I suppose.

The endgame of capitalism is the world's richest man enthroned on a mountain of corpses and extracted resources.

John Gaius is that man.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2023 19:04

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
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My Dune analogy for John is "Leto II if he floated up from the chasm, declared "*I* am the Golden Path", and incinerated Siona and Duncan on the spot (plus all Tleilaxu propaganda about his sexual proclivities was spot on)".

# ¿ Dec 14, 2023 15:51

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

YHWH never ate peanuts in a meeting, though.

# ¿ Dec 16, 2023 01:11

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 23:19

Rogue AI Goddess: May 10, 2012; I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

Another possible fate for Jod is in the series' title.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 02:15

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